Pied Billed Grebe

[Krishnakotti]

Pied Billed Grebe Photographed in Local Pond in Utah
Nikon Z9 and 800 PF
High ISO, Processed with DXO PureRaw and Photoshop
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[Charles Loy]

Nice subject, super photo

 

[Ralph]

Pied Billed Grebe Photographed in Local Pond in Utah
Nikon Z9 and 800 PF
High ISO, Processed with DXO PureRaw and Photoshop
Let me know your reaction, thoughts, and comments.

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Beautiful shot! Super sharp, great background. Well done

 

[Steve]

Great shot!!

 

[Mark Hauser]

Beautiful picture, great work

 

[BarkingBeans Coffee]

Excellent image. ISO how high? The pond colors do well with the Grebe.

 

[NatureBoy]

I love the way the water and backround color Came out. Bird is nice and sharp. I really like it.

 

[NorthernFocus]

Nice image. Great detail on the bird, lovely water color, and great subject isolation. IMO the blur of the FG looks unnatural with no falloff.

 

[Krishnakotti]

You can get that foregound by placing the lens close to water surface. With this being fresh water lake and I could to hold my lens right at water level and shoot the grebes when they passed me.
ISO 6400, 1/1600, f/6.3
Z9 and 800 PF Handholding Lying flat down on the lake shore.

 

[Krümelkraft]

Fantastic shot, nice background, nice light . I just have the impression the horizon is slightly tilted to the right.
But maybe it's just an impression.
I also like that picture in picture - the eye reflection.

 

[Krishnakotti]

You could be right but I thought that birds was level. I will revisit the image again.

 

[BAL Land]

I agree, it needs to be leveled. I also feel it’s way too tightly cropped.

 

[Woody Meristem]

It's a great photo in every way other than what others have mentioned about the slight clockwise rotation, but that's an easy fix.

 

[Platalea ajaja]

Awesome shot for sure. The water melding into the background is absolutely phenomenal. Personally I'm fine with the crop; maybe a touch more in front of him but not a great deal. And yeah, he looks like he is sliding downhill just a tad. But a really great shot. Dang nice.

 

[EricBowles]

Very nice shot - love the color of the background and the grebe is very well done.

If I'm really going to nit-pick, maybe the brightness of the water ripple in front of and behind the bird needs to be toned down slightly - maybe a half stop or so darker on the whites and highlights. You might clone over those areas with the background in a lower opacity - maybe 15-20%. I find cloning with low opacity is a good way to handle blown out areas that lack any color or detail.